RMACAUH Chapter 58

Chapter 58 Chapter 58 This time, I must perform well, let him…

Chapter 58 Chapter 58 This time, I must perform well, let him…

“Then will you come tomorrow?” Si Mo looked at him with anticipation.

Feng Xilan did not answer him, pretending to be calm as he walked out of the top-floor attic. When he went out, his legs were weak. If it weren’t for Qingya supporting him, he would have fallen to the ground.

“Little Prince, are you alright?”

Feng Xilan took a deep breath, “I’m fine, let’s talk about it after returning to the palace.”

“Okay.” Qingya carefully helped him leave the Zangshuge.

After Feng Xilan returned, he ignored Si Mo for two days.

Si Mo couldn’t concentrate on anything. The scene from that day replayed in his mind over and over again. He kept thinking about what he did wrong, why didn’t he come back after he went back?

Had he known this would happen, he should have agreed to him first, kept him hooked, and then gradually let him understand himself and walk into his heart.

He was too impatient, maybe he messed up again!

“Damn!!!” Si Mo felt suffocated, taking the dagger and slashing at the pear wood in frustration, surely there was something he didn’t do well enough, but what exactly was it?

Why didn’t he come?

Why?!

*

Feng Xilan calculated the time, Feng Yue was about to leave Nanzhao, and he had to give him a definite answer.

Before, he really underestimated Si Mo. This person was meticulous and had a very deep scheming mind. Cooperating with him was not about turning from a decoration in the palace into his puppet. How should he negotiate with him to get rid of this situation that was unfavorable to him?

Moreover, he couldn’t see any ambition for rebellion from Si Mo for the time being.

“Qingya, prepare the carriage, we…”

Before he could finish speaking, the door was pushed open in response, and Si Ming, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time, walked in with his hands behind his back, his eyes complexly examining him.

“You seem to be leaving the palace frequently these past two days?”

Feng Xilan didn’t even salute when he saw him. Having been married into the palace for these years, he had never received any favors from him anyway. With his personality, he naturally wouldn’t care about his expression.

“So the Heir Apparent is so leisurely, how is it that you have the leisure and elegance to come here today?”

Perhaps because of his neglect of him in recent years, and because he had an outside lover and children first, he felt a trace of guilt. When facing Feng Xilan, Si Ming did not appear strong.

He sat down at the table by himself and said, “I want to make Yazhi my second wife.”

Feng Xilan smiled mockingly: “The Heir Apparent is still allowed to have a second wife? Haha, the rules of your Nanzhao are so different.”

“Yazhi has given birth to my eldest son, and now she is three months pregnant again. The clan elders and relatives think this is reasonable, but as you said, there has never been a rule for the Heir Apparent to marry a second wife, so…”

“So you hope that I can be generous and, because of the children, offer to let you marry Lin Yazhi as a second wife, fulfilling your love with Lin Yazhi and also completing my reputation?”

“That’s right.”

Now, facing him, Feng Xilan only felt disgust, “Si Ming, how can you have the face to make these requests? I married you, I didn’t sell myself to you, how can you treat me like this?”

“You can make any requests you have.”

Feng Xilan was silent for a long time, and said, “In that case, why don’t you let me leave the palace and give me a separate residence, and you and I will never see each other again, how about that?”

“You are still the Heir Apparent’s consort, and the future primary princess, this is against the rules.”

“You’re talking to me about rules now? Hahaha…” Feng Xilan laughed up to the sky: “That’s so funny! You’re forcing me to offer to let you marry Lin Yazhi as a second wife, is that in accordance with the rules?”

“Feng Xilan,” Si Ming’s eyes were full of warning and coldness: “Do you think you can negotiate any conditions with me? I’m giving you a choice because I see that your status is noble, and I’m giving you some face, not for you to take an inch and want a mile.”

“Is that so? Then should I thank the Heir Apparent for your great kindness?”

“Feng Xilan!”

“I’m not deaf, what are you yelling about?”

“Whether you agree or not, this is a decided fact!”

“Then what did you come to ask me for? Just marry her!”

……

Si Ming closed his eyes and took a few deep breaths. This was the reason why he didn’t like him, like he was covered in thorns, stabbing people with one touch. Besides a pretty face, he didn’t know how to please a man at all.

But there were too many pretty faces in this world, and Feng Xilan had no self-awareness at all.

He really didn’t know what good it would do him to oppose him like this every day, with such indifference?

Si Ming sneered: “Someone like you, no wonder no one loves you.”

These words were like a thorn that pierced Feng Xilan’s heart. Originally, he still had a little thought for Si Ming, although he had never shown that he cared.

But now, there was really none left.

He should just think carefully about how to get the greatest benefit from Si Mo and take control of power.

He had had enough of being inferior to others and suffering this kind of humiliation.

“Okay, you marry her, I agree to you.” Feng Xilan seemed to lose all his strength in an instant, “Only one thing, you and I will continue to maintain a nominal relationship. In the future, I will enter and leave the palace without interfering with each other, and no one can control me.”

Si Ming was silent for a while, seeing him lower his head, a trace of guilt arose: “As long as it doesn’t harm the interests of the palace, naturally no one will control you.”

“Qingya, prepare the carriage, I’m going out.”

Feng Xilan raised his chin and glanced at Si Ming, “Heir Apparent, please.”

His appearance didn’t make people hate him, but rather tickled their heart like a cat’s paw. For a moment, Si Ming couldn’t react and could only watch him walk out of the room swaggeringly without looking back.

Si Ming had never looked at his male consort squarely. He had never been interested in Gē’er, but now looking at him like this, he inexplicably wanted to subdue him, making him lower his posture and submit to his feet.

*

The maidservant delivered the evening meal to Si Mo in the evening, only to see Si Mo lying despondently on the pear wood desk, with pens, ink, paper, and inkstones scattered all over the floor. The intact tabletop was unevenly slashed by a dagger.

Their Prince often went crazy, and no one wanted to come and deliver food to him, but the maidservant was a newcomer. She shouldn’t have been the one to deliver it today, but she had been arranged to deliver it for several days in a row.

“Little Prince, it’s time for the evening meal.”

Si Mo lay motionless on the desk, as if he were dead. If he weren’t still talking, the maidservant would have suspected that he had gone crazy for a moment and killed himself.

“I don’t want to eat, take it out!”

“Yes!”

The maidservant ran away, not eating was good, lest she had to serve him the meal. She would find a place to secretly eat the dishes herself, and what she didn’t finish would be given to the dogs, and she would go back and say that the Little Prince had eaten it.

Hehe.

When she got downstairs, she was walking too fast and almost collided with Feng Xilan.

Qingya frowned and scolded: “Where did this little girl come from? Can’t you see where you’re going? If you had injured my Lord Consort, would your little life still be here?!”

The maidservant knelt down crying, kowtowing and begging for mercy: “Lord Consort, spare me! Lord Consort, spare me!”

Feng Xilan glanced at the food box next to her and understood that this maidservant must be from the Old Princess’s side, coming to deliver food to Si Mo.

“Leave the food, you can go.”

“Lord Consort?”

“After you go back, don’t tell anyone that you saw me, otherwise, the matter of you almost bumping into me in a rash manner will not be able to be kept secret, understand?”

“Understood, understood.”

“Then why aren’t you leaving yet?”

“Yes, this servant will take her leave.”

Qingya didn’t understand for a moment: “Didn’t you eat enough at the restaurant just now?”

Feng Xilan went forward and picked up the food box, “You guard below.”

“Okay…” I wonder how his conversation with Si Mo went? That Si Mo looked like someone who was not easy to provoke, don’t be bullied.

Feng Xilan carried the food box to the top-floor attic, Si Mo was still in that dead state, not moving at all.

He placed the Box on the table, glanced at the mess on the floor, and the dry ink stains on the wall, which were spilled the day he left.

Si Mo was in a burst of annoyance, and said angrily: “Get out! I said I don’t want to eat! Do you want to die?!”

He suddenly raised his head and glared over, instantly changing his face when he saw Feng Xilan, “Why did you come?”

“Little Prince Si Mo has such a great temper.”

Si Mo was so nervous that his palms were sweating, “No, I’m not usually like this, I was just… dreaming.”

“Dreaming? What kind of dream can make you so angry?”

“Ah…” Si Mo swallowed a mouthful of saliva, looking serious, “I saved a – dog in my dream, it brought a dead mouse to repay me, I said I wouldn’t eat it and told it to get lost, but it insisted that I eat it, so I scolded it and asked if it wanted to die.”

“You’re really kind.”

“Haha, I’ve always been so kind.”

“Why would a dog bring a mouse?”

“Because it’s nosy!”

“…”

The smile on Feng Xilan’s face almost distorted, this person was manic and easily angered, but he was extremely thick-skinned and very capable of fabricating stories.

“Let’s eat.”

“Okay.” Si Mo wiped the sweat from his palms on his trouser legs and secretly took a few deep breaths. This time, he must perform well so that he would want to come again tomorrow after he came today.

The evening meal was quite sumptuous, with four dishes and a soup, and two small plates of cold dishes.

Si Mo paid great attention to his dining etiquette, trying to maintain elegance without making a sound.

Feng Xilan couldn’t help but sigh in his heart, this person ate very elegantly, it seemed that the Old Princess had carefully taught him.

Moreover, his handwriting was very beautiful, although he was full of obscene words and romantic poems, he could open his mouth and speak, probably not an unlearned person.

After eating, Si Mo rinsed his mouth before awkwardly cleaning up the mess on the floor.

Feng Xilan looked at the pear wood desk that was still in good condition a few days ago. Today, the smooth surface was no longer intact.

He pulled out the dagger inserted into the corner of the table, “Do you have a feud with this table? A good pear wood desk, you ruined it like this.”

“That’s not true. I suddenly had an idea yesterday and wanted to paint on the tabletop.”

“Painting?” Feng Xilan sneered, “Good, I also want to admire the The prince’s earth-shattering painting!”

“Okay.” Si Mo quietly kicked the waste paper under his feet, so he wouldn’t have to clean it up.

Seeing Si Mo really looking like he was going to paint for him, Feng Xilan was full of suspicion.

“Give me the dagger.”

“Okay.”

Feng Xilan returned the dagger to him, and saw him continuing to slash at the desk with the extremely sharp dagger.

Feng Xilan leaned against the grandmaster’s chair, propping his cheek with one hand, wanting to see what he could paint!

Until the sky outside darkened, he deepened the original marks little by little. Feng Xilan could vaguely see that he was carving the auspicious dragon and phoenix.

He shook his sore hand, “I’m not doing it today, the dagger is not easy to carve with. I’ll have them find wood carving tools tomorrow, but I didn’t lie to you, look, is this… a painting?”